Iraqi and U.S. troops detained a senior militia leader in Baghdad's Shi'ite Kadhimiya district on Friday, the U.S. military said. A statement said he was wanted on suspicion of running a murder and kidnapping cell, but did not give further details.BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds killed seven people and wounded 20 in Baghdad's western Adhamiya district on Saturday night as a curfew went into effect ahead of Sunday's scheduled verdict in the trial against Saddam Hussein for crimes against humanity.BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed on a police headquarters in eastern Baghdad, killing three policemen and wounding three others, police said.BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed on a crowded market in eastern Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding five others, police said.KIRKUK - A sniper wounded a policeman while his team was trying to defuse a roadside bomb in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.... http://www.alertnet.org

The distance between the northern suburbs of the Iranian capital of Tehran and the nuclear enrichment facility of Natanz is roughly 180 miles. What transpires on the ground between these two geographical points has seized the attention of the international community, and in particular the government of the United States, as the world wrestles with how best to respond to the issues surrounding Iran's decision to pursue indigenous enrichment of uranium in defiance of the United Nations Security Council's resolution demanding that all such activity cease. I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where over the course of a week I made the journey from the northern suburbs of Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment facility, and in doing so had my eyes opened. The Iran that I witnessed was far removed from the one caricatured in the US media. I left with the frustrating realization that, as had been the case with Iraq, America was stumbling toward a conflict, blinded ...http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061120/ritter

Rickety buses and cars carrying leftists from across Mexico rolled into Oaxaca's university Saturday to join protesters preparing for a massive march to confront police.Demonstrators plan to march Sunday from the university to police encampments in the center of the city as part of their five-month protest to oust the state's governor.At least nine people have died since August in the unrest, which has rattled outgoing President Vicente Fox's administration. The planned march has sparked fears of more violence in the colonial city that was once one of the country's main tourist attractions.Protest leader Flavio Sosa, who is wanted by state police on conspiracy and riot charges, said the marchers will not look for a fight Sunday, but he fears police may provoke one."Our enemies carry out murders, persecution and arbitrary arrests," Sosa told The Associated Press. "We have the right to defend ourselves."...http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-04-oaxaca-unrest_x.htm?csp=34

NATO forces struck an insurgent compound in rare violence one province north of Kabul, and fighting continued in the area on Saturday, a NATO official said. Taliban fighters, meanwhile, attacked a convoy of supply vehicles going to a NATO base, killing two Pakistani drivers on Friday, while nine Taliban insurgents and one Afghan soldier were killed in other violence the last several days, the Ministry of Defense said. Close air support was used Friday to strike a compound north of Kabul that was holding eight to 10 insurgents, said Maj. Luke Knittig, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. He said he didn't know how many insurgents were killed. Almost 5 years after Bush declared a Glorious Victory using the Northern Alliance we can’t walk any streets in this so-called liberated country. If the Nazi Occupation troops could walk in the streets of the countries they called Liberated, why cant we? ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/04/world/main2153356.shtml?source=RSSattr=World_2153356

Bush vowed on Saturday to stick with the war in Iraq and Democrats said they would fight for a new course in the conflict in a final weekend of campaigning ahead of Tuesday elections in which control of Congress is at stake. "I understand the consequences of retreat," Bush told thousands of Republican loyalists at a rally. "That's why we'll support our troops, that's why we'll fight in Iraq, and that's why we'll win in Iraq." He was unfazed by a heckler at the rally for Colorado Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (news, bio, voting record)'s re-election bid. "Get out of Iraq," the heckler shouted from a perch on a tractor before he was hustled out. Democrats, feeling good about their chances of seizing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and possibly the Senate as well, said it was time for a change. It really is time for a change, but voting Democrat or Republican is not a change. Toss them all out. That is a change we all need. Just do it...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/pl_nm/usa_elections_dc

In a report released Sat by Gov. George Pataki, a legal adviser said there is a case for removing embattled Comptroller Alan Hevesi from office but he needs more time to review the case before he could recommend removal proceedings. "It is my view that there is a valid legal basis for a recommendation to the Senate that the comptroller be removed & that aggravating circumstances of his conduct may very well warrant his removal from office," attorney David Kelley said in a report Pataki, released 3 days before Hevesi faces challenger J. Christopher Callaghan, a Republican, at the polls. "Nevertheless, without knowing the procedures the Senate will employ to hear the evidence, & until I have the opportunity to personally assess the witnesses & evidence I do not feel that I am now in a position to advise you to proceed with a recommendation to the Senate for the comptroller's removal.” If he broke the Law Jail him, we are tried of these SOBs getting just a slap on the wrist...http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-04-hevesi_x.htm?csp=34